They argue that it will, eventually, create the right climate for job creation and that the public has to be grown-up enough to take the long-term view.
As always, it is the President who must be the grown-up in the room.
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Whether it's Sandy, or the Gulf, or the economy, in a complex modern world acting as a co-ordinator, allowing experts to do their job, may be the most grown-up and effective way of dealing with problems.
This time around, both were trying to be seen as grown-up parties of government, and focused on serious issues, such as improving public services.
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Here she was trying to be a little grown-up with her best friend from L.A. She had to go to security and wait there until I got there.
In theory, these concerns should be easy for a grown-up government to address.
You might think yourself too grown-up to be wowed by shiny, glittery things, but we doubt many will be able to watch NVIDIA's new Glow Ball tech demo without a smidgen of childlike glee.
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She said it was vital that the loyalist protestors came off the streets so that a grown-up discussion could be held about how to resolve issues of identity, symbols and flags.
This means that the entire drama has to be carried on the ample shoulders of the grown-up Senta, Orla Boylan, whose display of passion is so convincing that her odd wobble of pitch only adds to our conviction that she's determined to stand by and save her man.
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And for sure not-quite-grown-up "adult" males often have issues with learning to be responsible for their share of things - like maybe sometimes the problem is with the guy?
And it seems like the grown-up thing to do would be to come to terms with it, grin and bear it, and make the best of the relationship.
It is every woman's right to be respected, cared for and looked after by man in all stages of her life (be that a father, brother, husband or grown-up son).
Devoid of grown-up sentimentalism, his images can be overwhelming, especially those that show how that innocence falters in an adult world.
And even some journalists wonder if a new statute on privacy might be simpler than the accretion of judge-made law that has grown up in recent years.
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"A decision may be unpopular but ultimately the state has to act responsibly in a grown-up fashion to protect all people sometimes from risks that they wish to impose upon themselves, " Mr Needham added.
The little plaintiff or defendant who was promised a new rocking-horse when Jarndyce and Jarndyce should be settled has grown up, possessed himself of a real horse, and trotted away into the other world.
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Or will refusing to take part in what might be viewed as a reality TV spot make Paul appear like the only grown-up in the room?
Every small child wants to be a pop star, but what do you do if you are grown-up, tone-deaf with as much rhythm as a bowl of apples?
Filling this new role at this time in my career is somewhat comparable to being that 20- or 30-something young parent who is still cool enough to remember what it is like to be the teenager, but now has to play the role of the grown-up who sets and enforces rules.
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Just as these establishments know better than to try to be all things to all people, so did my hotel, the very grown-up Villa Magna (which sponsored my trip).
Their home-grown ideas will probably be easier for their peers to copy than anything cooked up in the West.
Tapwave and Nokia will be gunning for gamers who have outgrown their Game Boys, and need to do grown-up things like manage a schedule and a budget.
"It'll be a bit like Pennsylvania, where a whole industry has grown up to deal with waste-water, " he said.
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